Finding the optimal balance to get the best from the car will be key. The general nature of street circuits also leaves no margin for error. read more »

Formula One has produced a truly remarkable and amazing start to the 2021 F1 season with Red Bull Racing's Max Verstappen comfortably beating reigning world champion Lewis... read more »

Sky Sport’s Formula 1 pitlane reporter Ted Kravitz has tipped McLaren to surprise in 2021 after an impressive by ‘shy’ testing performance in Bahrain. McLaren was ‘best of the... read more »

Red Bull's Max Verstappen set the pace on the opening day of F1 pre-season testing in Bahrain as Mercedes endured a sub-optimal start to 2021. read more »

McLaren Formula 1 driver Lando Norris said a combination of poor timing and a sub-optimal lap combined to yield his worst grid position of the season at the Sakhir GP read more »

It's tricky to clearly identify the performance gaps between the tyres as well as wear and degradation levels, which in turn makes it hard to predict the optimal race... read more »

In view of our less than optimal starting positions on a track that really doesn't suit us, we once again had to go for a bold strategy. read more »

Mario Isola says starting on the soft compound tyre is the optimal strategy call for the Singapore Grand Prix, although anything can happen at the Marina Bay Street Circuit. read more »

Mercedes trackside engineering director, Andrew Shovlin, has suggested the early Safety Car at Spa took the optimal strategy away from Lewis Hamilton. read more »

None of the Bahrain Grand Prix frontrunners will be on the optimal strategy, according to tyre manufacturers Pirelli. With Pirelli recommending the race be started on the... read more »

The most anticipated addition to the Formula One calendar of the recent years has been delayed due to "a sub-optimal race track". The decision was made in... read more »

The prospect of "sub-optimal" weather persuaded F1 chiefs not to move next year's British Grand Prix to April so Silverstone could host the sport's 1,000th... read more »

The prospect of "sub-optimal" British weather was enough to convince Formula One chiefs not to move Silverstone's position on the calendar to host Formula... read more »

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says "question marks" still exist over the team's optimal set-up despite its one-two finish at the Canadian Grand Prix. The world... read more »

Although it was always clear that a one-stop strategy would be optimal, there was a very wide range of possibilities. read more »

Formula 1 tyre supplier Pirelli says a one-stop approach to the Monaco Grand Prix is "clearly the optimal strategy", with its rubber showing little… read more »

With variable weather and relatively high degradation on the soft, it's going to be difficult to predict the optimal strategy. read more »

The free practice sessions in particular will be extremely important this year, with the optimal strategy yet to be defined. read more »

There are big question marks about the optimal race strategy. read more »

McLaren had been expected to confirm their driver line-up ahead of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix following contractual sign-off from Fernando Alonso, however that announcement will... read more »

Even though he finished on the podium in Bahrain last month, Sergio Perez believes his Force India car hasn't reached its full potential yet... read more »

We had a tyre choice that may have been aggressive, with the supersoft being a perfect qualifying tyre and the medium optimal for the race, but this was in accordance with the... read more »

McLaren drivers Jenson Button and Sergio Pérez have suggested that they will focus their efforts on an improved race day set-up and strategy, as opposed to an... read more »

Like most grand prix Fridays, today was a day spent data-gathering, running experiments, and working towards finding optimal set-ups for the rest of the weekend. read more »

As Mercedes realised last weekend that their race pace was not optimal, the team focused today on improving the car's set-up for longer runs. Flying laps are saved for... read more »